September 23, 2020 Asteroid to have 'extremely close encounter' with Earth this week An asteroid will have an "extremely close encounter" with Earth on Thursday, when it flies by the planet at a distance of fewer than 20,000 miles, according to the Virtual Telescope Project.
September 22, 2020 NASA finds parts of another asteroid on asteroid Bennu NASA has discovered something peculiar on the asteroid Bennu – bits of another asteroid.
September 10, 2020 Baffling interstellar object 'Oumuamua could be a 'dust bunny' A new study now suggests 'Oumuamua might be something very common on Earth: a cosmic "dust bunny."
September 8, 2020 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid wider than two football fields set to fly past Earth next week An asteroid wider than two professional football fields is set to fly safely past Earth on Sept. 14, according to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies.
August 31, 2020 Asteroid wider than basketball court to fly past Earth, NASA says An asteroid wider than a basketball court is expected to fly past Earth tomorrow, but it will not pose a threat, NASA says.
August 19, 2020 Pickup truck-sized asteroid flew within 2K miles of Earth on Sunday and NASA didn't see it NASA may have updated its plan to protect the planet from asteroid strikes, but a space rock the size of a pickup truck zipped past the planet at a distance of approximately 1,830 miles on Sunday, the closest ever recorded. And the space agency didn't see it until after it happened.
August 11, 2020 Perseid meteor shower on deck: What you need to know Stargazers are in for a treat early Wednesday when the annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak.
July 21, 2020 62-mile space rock caused massive asteroid shower that hit Earth, moon 800M years ago, study says Eight hundred million years ago, a 62-mile-wide asteroid broke apart and sent 110 trillion pounds of meteorites crashing into the moon and the Earth, according to a new study.
July 17, 2020 A man digs up boulder in his garden, not realizing that it was a historic meteorite A rock discovered in a garden in Germany has been confirmed as the largest stony meteorite ever found in the country.
June 30, 2020 Dinosaurs were definitely killed by asteroid and not volcano, new study says If there was any doubt that the dinosaurs went extinct due to the massive asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago, a new study hopes to put the controversy to bed.
